He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

I've done quite a few movies, I generally can feel that I'm not right for the role or a general fear if I can pull it off, and him giving that "tag" so to speak gave me the confidence. Like that Miles Davis line, "Don't worry about mistakes, there aren't any." Once you are the part, you're the guy, so you can't not be the guy because you're it.

I think it would really be more like 10 films before I locked in and said, "Yeah, I'm really gonna do this thing."

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.