I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.