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I'm an atheist.

My father was a very contradictory man.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I wasn`t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.