The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.