I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.