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I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Film lovers are sick people.

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.