OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

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

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.