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

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.

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

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

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

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?

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.