Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

Shake it off and move on.

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.