If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when I do them, it does puts me back in touch with the people who go to movies. I do these shows just to stay in touch with them.

There is a good news and bad news about a remake. When you remake something, if you futz with the theme, you are in danger. Because people get it - they get the theme. They know what is galvanizing, what is energizing.

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if you cease to teach cursive writing, how does one know how to, I don’t know, replicate the Declaration of Independence? Or the orations of Cicero? Is it just going to be on the internet?

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.