Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.