I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.