There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.