Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

Quentin [Taranino] will say, "We've got it, but we're gonna do it one more time. Why?" And then, the entire cast and crew chimes in and says, "Because we love making movies!" He is a person who celebrates this form of expression, and it is evident in his movies, his conversations, his extensive knowledge about the history of what we do, and the actors and crew that he assembles.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.