Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

Hope on you is worthless because you make a mark to forgot

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

Without a past you can't have a future.

I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.

Be somebody for your kids to look up to.