I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.