The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

'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.

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

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

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.