Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script. There are certain people that are auteurs, and you accept them regardless of whether you see a script or not. But Spielberg is not an auteur.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.