Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

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

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.

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.