In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.