The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.