I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.
The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.
You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.
Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.
I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.
Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.
We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.
I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself.
I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.
No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.
