To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.