If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.