There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?

I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.