We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for an answer, as opposed to a big film, which is like a train that starts rolling down the tracks and nothing can stop it.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.