There is a fine line between passion and gas.

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.

He was a great man. And he was also me.