To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, you're going to get a sense of what the hell's going on there. Boy, you'll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.