Why Do I Ask For Directions? Because

Acting Was A Way Out At First. A Way Out Of Not Knowing What To Do, A Way Of Focusing Ambitions. And The Ambition Wasn't For Fame. The Ambition Was To Do An Interesting Job.

Los Angeles Is Where You Have To Be If You Want To Be An Actor. You Have No Choice. You Go There Or New York. I Flipped A Coin About It. It Came Up New York, So I Flipped Again. When You're Starting Out To Be An Actor, Who Wants To Go Where It's Cold And Miserable And Be Poor There?

I Don't Do Stunts - I Do Running, Jumping And Falling Down. After 25 Years I Know Exactly What I'm Doing.

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.

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.