Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

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.

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.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

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?