If you make exercise your hobby instead of your enemy it becomes your friend; it's the one thing that will never let you down. It will always be there for you and it will always make you better than you were before. Remember: every time you go to the gym, every time you put the right supplement in your mouth, you're better than you were ten minutes ago. [...] The irony is most people know what to do, they just don't do what they know.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.