My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.