For Some Directors, I'm The Actor From

It's Important Not To Base Your Ambition On Anybody Else's History, But To Figure Out How Best To Use Your Own Particular Personality And Understanding Of Yourself To Help Tell Other People's Stories.

I Am Not The First Man Who Wanted To Make Changes In His Life At 60 And I Won't Be The Last. It Is Just That Others Can Do It With Anonymity.

I'm Like Old Shoes, I've Never Been Hip.

I Don't Take Trouble At All To Conform A Screenplay To My Iconography. I Don't Say, "we Can't Do That - The Audience Wouldn't Accept It." I Try To Take The Limitations Of What Is Required To Play A Leading Character And Then Screw With Them.

There Comes A Point When You've Exhausted Your Opportunities Playing Good Guys. I've Been Around Long Enough, I Think I'm Entitled To Explore A Bit. But What I Saw There Was An Opportunity To Play A Character Different From What The Audience's Expectation Was. A Chance To Take Their Crude Experience Of Me - Of My Iconography, If You Will - And Turn It On Its Ear At An Appropriate Juncture In The Film To Be Useful To The Process Of Telling The Story.