Actor

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.