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

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?'

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

My father was a very contradictory man.

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.

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

I'm not a control maniac.

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

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

I'm an atheist.

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