“If you go to YouTube and look up ‘grief’ you can find them and it’s just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It’s like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.”

Actors aren’t fighters. They don’t know how to throw a punch. So, there’s a lot of hitting in the face. I’d much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don’t like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.

I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.

If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you’re explaining things. They’re teaching you and you’re teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

I think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I’d like to do a romantic comedy.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.

You can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.

You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you’re going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.