You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.

I like the smell of toast. Coffee is okay, but I don't drink much coffee. But toast is a nice smell. You smell some toast coming from your kitchen in the morning, you know that you're involved in a domestic situation and the operation that's going on is pleasant.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.