Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.