If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.