I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

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

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.