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And you recently finished work with Leonardo DiCaprio on Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Did you take the part to finally work with Scorsese? More or less. And Leonardo was instrumental in that. I had turned the picture down, as there wasn't a part there. Obviously I'd like to work with Martin and Leo, but [laughs] as I said to them, I'd love to do it, but there's no part here! And that evolved from discussion into [collaboration]. And then there was a part there. I play the incarnate of evil. I had done a few comedies in a row, and I just wanted to do a bad guy.
What are you up to since The Departed wrapped? Watching a lot of baseball. I've probably read two or three scripts. I play golf. I got kids. [His youngest are Lorraine and Raymond, ages 15 and 13.] I'm trying to figure out how to lighten their backpacks.
Literally? Yeah. I picked [the backpack] up, and I thought, For the love of God, this will destroy their posture, their structure, or something. It's just too many books.
Speaking of, are you still a big reader? One of the reasons I used to take time off is that there was no way to read nonprofessionally. So I had to say, ''I'm off, I'm not in the movie business for the next year.'' I like [Andrew] Vachss' thrillers, and I just ordered [Salman] Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown and [E.L.] Doctorow's The March. Doctorow chews it up pretty good.
Should we be worried about your retirement? Do I think I'll make more films? Yeah! I mean, sure. I don't know, of course. I was delighted, the last time I took a year or so off, to find that no, I still like being involved in making beautiful things.
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