If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.