I don't run around shooting people. Much. I only shoot two people a year. Maybe.

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

I trust most people. Not producers.

Sam [L.Jackson] never asks for another take because he knows what he's doing. He gives you what he thinks is the best take, and he does it on the first take.

Those are the rules. To improvise in a movie with other people, when they're following a script, everybody has to know what's going on. I think a line or two we might change. Certainly, I do. But I wouldn't call it improvising. I'd call it fudging the lines.

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.