The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

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 world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

That's another thing that's depressing: certain attitudes in Congress. They assume that you're dumb; they can take advantage of you being dumb. I find that offensive. It insults our intelligence. They're playing us for dumb and they're being dumb in doing it. But I believe that's gonna change. I think those people, the McConnells, are not helping us at all. They're taking us backward in time.

I enjoyed working with Dustin Hoffman. That was really fun. He decided that to really be effective as Woodward and Bernstein, considering their differences, we should spend some time together. Because Dustin and I were very different.