Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

Every country has their problems.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.

I was never a fanatical movie person.

Utopia means elsewhere.

I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'

We're all animals.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

I don't need to be liked.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Politics is not really my thing.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

I don't throw things or yell.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I always wanted to be fashionable.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.