I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

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.

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.