Whatever character you're playing you have to complete the entire interior infrastructure, whatever it is - but what gets divulged or what people completely understand depends on the script and what you decide to show. But you have to know it.

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.

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

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Violence doesn't seem to bother people anymore - they're inured to it. And I think it has a lot to do with the violence in movies and video games - it doesn't bother people as much. I'm not so sure it evokes a reaction anymore.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

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