I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

In terms of how prudish Americans were in the '40s and '50s, I have absolutely no idea. I do know about the character that I play. And I don't think it's about being prudish. I think it's about trying to balance a sense of control in this man's life.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

I can be a lazy dresser.