Quotes

I love plays like "Of Mice and Men." Modern classics. They tell you so much about America, how things were. The time it's about wasn't all that long ago, but we often forget times, and things, we should remember.

We make these stories, we play act, we pretend. But a lot of these stories we're playing or we're doing, people identify with us. We're real to them.

[asked to name the great actors from 1970s] Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Jon Voight, John Cazale, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, and John Savage -- nobody talks about John Savage. He's amazing in The Deer Hunter (1978), The Onion Field (1979), Inside Moves (1980).

There's a little bit of value in a lot of films that don't get a lot of attention. They have legs. They show up for years.

I have a deep interest in the experiences of men and women in the armed services.

The Last Full Measure (2019) directed by Todd Robinson brought a movie to a story that was true in Vietnam and the people going to it who all took part in making this film possible to show how many people were affected for 50 years after this.