Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.