A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

Any political situation has many sides... We intellectualize the whole situation any way... We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.