I am not a cynic.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn’t do well in the computer world. My children look at me for a question and then they quickly look away because they know that I’m not going to know how to make Super Mario or do anything.

I think there’s true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

There’s actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn’t make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

I don’t think I’d have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

I’ve always known that I’m a little out of vogue.

There’s real drama in performing live. You never know how it’s going to be.

When you try to portray people’s lives, you try to make sure you don’t portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don’t try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don’t live.

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That’s what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We’ve grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.