I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

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

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

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 big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.