This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

The Kennedys have always represented a certain royal quality, Camelot, and they represent a great deal of integrity and strength and perseverance; faith in the future of America and where we could go. What a tragedy it was that the carpet was pulled out from under our feet.