I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.