For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.