There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.