So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.