I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.