Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would all agree that it's all based upon material and the material has got to spark with you. It may be great material but you think it's great material for somebody else. Or it's great material and I'm perfect for it. So, you just have to make that judgment and if you feel in the mood to do it.

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.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.