You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.

Being comfortable is over-rated.

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.