Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

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.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.