I like to have a good experience. That's all you have.

My stepfather was a producer. I'd always wanted to be in show business. And so when he came into my life and he told my brothers and myself, he said, look, if you want to be in this business, you're all going to have to start at the bottom.

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

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.

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

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.