The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.