I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

There are different reasons to make movies.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

I would like to direct.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.