It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

We were friends with Jonathan Demme. We were all down on the West Side of New York, and I think I met Kurt Vonnegut through Edith Demme. And then I was lucky to do Who Am I This Time? 1982, which was an adaptation of his short story that Jonathan Demme directed with Chris Walken and I, and that really cemented the friendship.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.