"Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it."

"It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say."

"I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing."

"I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor."

"I wouldn't succeed at musical theater."

"In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role."

"You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view."

"I'd love to direct more."

"I think Polanski's an amazing director."

"I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook."

"I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything."

"'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good."

"Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not."

"I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that I make a living right away, and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film."

"It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?"

"Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed."

"The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. —CHARLES DARWIN"

"My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do."

"I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring."

"It's hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It's hard to leave anywhere at all."

"You think plants don’t have feelings? Maybe not the type of feelings you and I have, but they do have planty feelings, really slow feelings that unfold or blossom over years rather than seconds."

"Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom."

"I’ve never seen a wild almond or a soy galloping about in its natural habitat, but cow milk is the best."

"Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them."