I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.