Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

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

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.

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.