As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

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.