I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people go through, and how their acting works for them.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.

Unleash you masterpiece genius and let your authentic self be free.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It’s then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.