If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.

I love playing an alien.