Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.