Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss.