I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

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.

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.

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

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

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