People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.

When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So many of them were really more about the human condition and about relationships between people, and they were smaller films that had a much greater impact on me as a human being.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.