No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.