You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But that's not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It's because it's an entertaining thriller. In my opinion, Tootsie is a very political movie but truck drivers can go and laugh at it.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

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