I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'
I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.'
One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.
I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
I had a good time doing ["The Congressman"], and I hope that Treat [Williams] and I plan to go flying in his [private] jet!
I met Forest Whitaker on 'Our Family Wedding' and we struck up a real bond and friendship.
It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, "Always", and that was that.
They never let Rider [Strong] and I do scenes together because we would look at each other and start laughing.
I've worked with Jagapathi Babu in four films and the two of us are great friends.
I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.
Michael J. Fox is nice. I'm not in close contact with him.
Treat Williams and I have been friends for years. To finally get to work together was great.
