I don’t do anything that is not fun. I just don’t do it.
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I’m not a spokesman for anything.
I don’t fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
The most important question in American cinema, I’ve learned, is ‘When is lunch?’
I don’t direct movies for a living.
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you’re not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you’ve done together with friends is a privilege.
I don’t get it. If you’re saying, Tommy Lee, you don’t fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.
Cormac McCarthy’s language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
I don’t analyze things like titles.
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.
I’ve worked with more than 50 directors and I’ve paid attention since day one. That’s pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I’ve seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.
I look upon pride as a sin.
I’ve worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.
I’m a believer in belief. Faith is something that works – it causes people to do things, it has results. It’s an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
I don’t see people as groups, I see them as individuals.
I think any stereotyping is too much.
Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.
Acting is fun for me and it doesn’t really matter how, whether it’s hard work or easy work, it’s always fun.