In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

A good man always knows his limitations.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend.