The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

I don't believe in pessimism.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.