Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.