People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

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.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.