When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."

You can't really walk anywhere. Where are you going to go? Everything closes at a certain hour and it's a highway with bars on it; that's what it is.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than my regular voice, so that was a little difficult to begin with. It was especially hard because we started recording in the morning so I had to warm up a lot and my usual voice is a little more gravelly.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.