There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.