I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.