Quotes by Bill Pullman

A story about... I play a guy who is with... Patricia Arquette is my wife and we're having troubles. It's a raw relationship. And she ends up dead and they think I did it. I don't think I did.

I have my own agrarian indulgence now - two and a half acres in Hollywood where I've planted over 50 varieties of fruit trees. I've got grapefruits, tangerines, plums, peaches, apricots, kumquats, limes, lemons, oranges, mulberries, apples, walnuts, quince, cherimoyas, and black and white sapotes.

I haven't met him yet. He has a dark sensibility, but a way of turning the darkness into a different aspect. Like he says in the Lemony Snicket books, 'This is a sad story, so if you don't like sad stories, don't read this one.'

ID4 felt like so completely the best disaster movie to be in - so brilliant and unusual. The whole premise of doing a flood or lava... I just go the other way.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, but he fell in love with the Adirondacks when he went there for summer camp. So after medical school in Rochester, New York, he drove south until he found a city in which to practice - Hornell, in New York State's southern tier.

Oddly, I've been brought into a conflict the town is facing now. A pharmacy chain is threatening to demolish four historic houses near the one I grew up in to build a drive-thru superstore. The money they're offering is beyond anyone's expectations, yet the town could cannibalize its heritage and never quite recover.

Rick' is its own piece, but yet it is this curious reflection on the cave wall of 'Rigoletto.' And 'Rigoletto' was an adaptation of a previous play by Victor Hugo. To me it's always a surprise how modern 'Rigoletto' is because of the ambiguities: Rigoletto is a jester, he's compromised, but he's also charismatic and interesting. The daughter is the victim, but she's also making her own trouble.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There was also an undercurrent of desperation about the town's sagging image. They put up booster signs with slogans like It's Swell in Hornell. As teenagers we mocked it. Yet it made me sensitive to the town's identity crisis: How does an underdog pull itself up?

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.