It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.