With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the "absurdity ball" around and the "irreverence ball" around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there's great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It's a real pleasure, and I do need him.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.