Family makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive... I'm feeling my life, which I didn't always do partly because I'd be drunk a lot.

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

Koizumi indicated clearly that he intends to step
down next year. I have no reason to doubt his
word. For better or worse, he tends to do what he
says he is going to do.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]

There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.