Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

I'm an atheist.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I'm not a control maniac.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors.

My father was a very contradictory man.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.

I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

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.