I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.