I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.