“I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.”

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.

You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.

You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.

I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.

It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.