It's generally more fun playing the villain

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.