The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

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