You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

If you're married you'll have tough times.

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was like that where people say "oh, you know, that sounds so..." and we'd always go back and get every man, every ellipses in there the way these guys write it. Because not only is it saying what Michael wants the character to say but the way they all speak kind of creates this tone because it's not exactly real.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.