"Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father."

"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine."

"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."

"I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors."

"If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers."

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

"I think we all have light and dark inside us."

"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."

"There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged."

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

"The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that."

"I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point."

"Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me."

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

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

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

"It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama."

"Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking."

"I think life's an irrational obsession."

"I really love to make movies."

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

"I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one."

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

"At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch."

"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."

"Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it."

"In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor."

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