The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all his own ideas and I can only just help him with that. I cannot change his idea.

When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.