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Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.