Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I look at them and say, 'You don't want to have contacts with those people.' Look at what happened to River Phoenix [who died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside the Viper Room]. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage.

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.