We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.

Everybody likes to win.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.