I just love the process of working with other actors.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.