Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

We need to analyze our picture of the world

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Listen, I didn’t ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents’ DNA, I’ve got them, and I’m not ashamed to use ’em.

When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.