I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.