YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.

I'm very wary of news on television.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

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.