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

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's second movie, Daddy and Them, to just a bunch of movies that I have done have been comic, and they're usually from a cynical kind of pessimistic point of view which is probably my sense of humor, and this is a part of myself in everybody that I play.

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.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.