I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me.

I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.

Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.

Not sure there is a truth that's "for sure."

My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.