I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.