I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that balance. It's impossible to articulate, as you go through it. You just have to recognize it.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.