Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.