I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

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

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

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.

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