Given A Chance, I Would

I Loved 'saturday Night Fever' When I Was A Kid. I Couldn't Believe People Talked That Way. It Was Just A Whole New Culture I Didn't Understand. I Snuck Into It. It Was An R-rated Film. So It Holds A Special Place.

We Had A Work Session [in "moneyball"] Where About 30 Scouts Came In And We're All Riffing. And After It, [director] Bennett Miller Said: Look At These Faces And This Is What We Have To Got To Do. We Got To Get These Guys In The Scene.

The Choice Or Decision To Take On A Film Certainly Isn't Calculated As Far As Doing Something That Will Be Successful Against Something That Will Have A Smaller Audience. It's All A Gamble To Me, I Don't Bet On The Horses; I Just Go With The Story That Speaks To Me And That I Feel Strongly About Which Is This One [the Assassination Of Jesse James].

I'm Actually Very Snobbish About Directors. I Have To Say No All The Time. 'no' Is The Most Powerful Word In Our Business. You've Got To Protect Yourself… To Leave Home, It's Got To Be Worth Leaving. It's Got To Be Worth It.

Basically When You Whittle Everything Away, I'm A Grown Man Who Puts On Makeup.