The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenab….

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively..

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically….

Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process..

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl..

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill..

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting b….

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's fi….

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products..

Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked..

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth..

The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much gra….

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are no….

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person i….

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look lik….

Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you real….

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I….

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his..

The kids know me from 'Babe,' but usually it is 'L.A. Confidential' that people remember, which was the second film I did. I have worked with some re….

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue..

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'M….