Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature..

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell..

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life..

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the th….

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute..

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director..

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy..

I don't even own a cell phone..

I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? ….

I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I….

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it..

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others..

Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you've….

You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier..

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?.

I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-ti….

Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?.

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's th….

No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human..

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be a….

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything..