When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.

I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.

ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.

I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.