I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way