When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.