Movies are like magic tricks.

I remember in one of my early films I had a drunk scene. It was Kiss Me Goodbye, with Sally Field, and I was playing this kind of nerdy guy who gets drunk and dances. And so I thought, "Oh well, I'll just get drunk and do the dance." And it was wonderful, but then I had the rest of the day, and the next day. So I learned that you don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

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

I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.