If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.