My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.