Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.
You take the work seriously, you don’t take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you’ll do well the rest of your life.
You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.
I’ve lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it’s not for me to really judge it. I’ll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.
That’s why I don’t rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I’d like to take the character, but we both end up going together.
No, I don’t have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you’re in character, you’re in character. You don’t sit there purposely thinking, Well, I’ll grunt here, or I’ll groan there.
You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.
I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?
I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that’s always amazing to me.
If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you’re fighting an uphill battle.
I don’t mind telling a dark side.
Society is at odds with itself.
I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That’s the way you do it in life and every other subject.
I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.