If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

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

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.