In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

I am the Avatar of this Age!

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.