As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.