I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.