When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

Roger was not personally ambitious

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas, ' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love, ' 'Love Me Tender, ' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect