I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

If you are not learning, you are not living.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.