Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

Every actor just wants good writing.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.