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

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.

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.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.