What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.