I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

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

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.