[on Sally Field]: I haven`t seen her in 10 years and I`d like to very much. Because I`d like to tell her in person what I didn`t know then. That is, how incredibly unselfish she was in terms of the time she spent with me. You know, inside that little body...
[On the stunt scenes he did for his thriller Crazy Six (1998)]: I told them, "Look, I can do this. I can still fall; I just can`t get up!" But the character is dead, anyway!
[On his character in his upcoming movie Waterproof (1999)]: He`s a 73-year-old Jewish grocery store owner on a street that`s entirely African-American. He`s the only holdout. He`s not moving. Tough old guy. I`m finding out to my own surprise, that I can d...
[On Boogie Nights (1997)]: It`s obvious why someone, I think, would be afraid of this project and I thought I had some baggage in terms of a lot of people who grew up with movies like I did would wonder why I would even be near a film like that. I also fe...