I Guess Maybe I'm Idealistic.

I Was Never A Joiner. I Tried - I Had People I Admired And Liked And Wanted To Hang With, But I Ended Up Starting A Theatre Company And That Took Me Back To Chicago... I Guess I Wasn't A Scenester In The End. Something Must Have Worked Out Right, As I'm Still Here - But I'm Only A Binge Socialite.

If You're Going To Get Into Social Criticism With Absurdity And Satire, You Can't Be Politically Correct When You Do That.

Roy, The Guy I Play In 'the Grifters,' Is A Guy Who Had A Very Bleak Life. His Mother Had Him At 13, And Then When She Was 17 Or 18 And He Was 4 Or 5, They Were Trapped In A Small Texas Town Somewhere, And She Was Ready To Do Anything To Get Out.

I Don't Tend To Think In Terms Of A Moral Authority - Be A Good Boy, Do Good Things - More In Terms Of What Feels Right.

A Lot Of People Know That Something Very Drastic Has Happened To The Very Idea Of America.