I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.