I saw Sidney Lumet out there, who's 80, and I thought, 'I'm just a kid,'

I just thought, 'Yeah, this gal would be great, if we can get her trained up, if we can get a little bit more bulk on her, to make her look like a fighter,' ... She was like a feather. But what happened is, she had this great work ethic.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

'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.

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.