Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.

Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

I just wanted what was outside to be different.

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

We're a mess, Kate.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

L.A.'s always been good to me.

The more you practice what you know, the more shall you know what to practice.

I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.