I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.

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