I Think There Are A Lot Of

When You're Young, You Tend To Believe What People Tell You, And That's Dangerous. As You Get Older, You Learn That You're Never As Good Or As Bad As They Say You Are. If You Understand This, You Win.

What You Learn After You Are 40 Is That It Is Just About Plugging Up Holes In The Boat. You Just Hope You Have Enough Corks To Plug Enough Of The Holes.

Ninety Percent Of Films Are Pretty Mediocre, But They Have A Built-in Audience And Open On 3,000 Screens.

I'm Always Sort Of Optimistic About How Good We Are, As A Country, At Fixing Ourselves.

See, The First Thing About Actors Is, You're Just Trying To Get A Job; And You Audition And Audition And You Finally Get Them. And You Still Consider Yourself An Auditioning Actor. I Auditioned For One Fine Day, I Wasn't Offered That. So You're Still In That 'hey, I'm Just Trying To Get A Job' Thing. Then, You Get To The Point Where, If You Decide To Do It, Then They'll Make The Film. That's A Different Kind Of Responsibility, And It Usually Takes A Couple Of Films To Catch Up. And Then You Have To Actually Pay Attention To The Kind Of Films That You're Making.