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" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "

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" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "

" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "

" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" 'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "

" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "

" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "

" I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. "

" Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times. "

" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "

" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you. "

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

" There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. "