If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.

If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."

Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.