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.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

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

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.