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

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

You've got to admit failure sometimes.