I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I think of myself as an actor.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

When I lose, I take it very personally.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting