You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

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.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.

We have a really, really great dog. It doesn't bark. My dog almost smiles, which is weird. He's just a very happy dog.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.