My Dad Was The Biggest Influence On

I Don't Want To Know About The Lives Of Other Actors And I Don't Want People To Know Too Much About Me. If We Don't Know About The Private Lives Of Other Actors, That Leaves Us As Clean Slates When It Comes To Playing Characters. That's The Point, They Can Create These Other Characters And I Can Believe Them. I Think If You're A Good Enough Actor, That's The Way To Longevity In The Film Business. Keep Everybody Guessing.

I Start From Scratch With Each Movie; I Wipe The Slate And I Certainly Don't Rely On Some Bag Of Acting Tricks I've Amassed Over The Years.

It's Very Easy To Leave When Things Go Wrong, But To Stick Around And To Basically Give Life To A Town Because Of Everything That It Gave You Generation After Generation After Generation, That To Me Is What Defines A True American.

All I've Ever Ended Up With In Terms Of Achievements Is The Movie, Some Really Stupid Anecdotes, A Bunch Of Crosswords That I Didn't Finish And Maybe Some Old Bicycle That I Found Lying Around On Set.

I Never Want To Turn Something Down Because I'm Afraid To Do It, Because Of Some Idea Of Image Or Whatever. That Was Never Anything I Set Out To Do. In Fact, The Opposite, I Always Want To Confuse People In Terms Of Any Kind Of Image And Be Unpredictable In Any Kind Of Movie I Make.