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

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

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

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

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