As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.
Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.
The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.
I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'
Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.
Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.
When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.
Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.
Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.
Right now I am working on something that's pretty important to me. It has to do with my own history in politics. I'd done All the President's Men, and the history of how that came about is a story unto itself. It began with The Candidate. No one knows about that connection. I was on a train, and I was promoting The Candidate going from Jacksonville, Florida, down to Miami to duplicate what candidates in 1972 did.
The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.
I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.
I don't think you can ever return, really.
I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.
I enjoyed working with Dustin Hoffman. That was really fun. He decided that to really be effective as Woodward and Bernstein, considering their differences, we should spend some time together. Because Dustin and I were very different.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.
