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.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'