My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

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