In theatre you can't ad lib, so you want to pick really good material, like David Mamet or Shakespeare or whatever. You want to be really careful about what you do. But in the movies, you do have more wiggle-room. You do have more opportunities to improvise. It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.