I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.