The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.