Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.