Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.

The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.

My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.