I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.