Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.