Acting is very immediate.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

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.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.