You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.