Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and let the public decide. If it's disgusting and they don't want to see it, they won't go. I believe in the audience.

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.