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.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company

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.