People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.