“Cinema has no boundaries, we all belong to the same artistic community.”

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn’t always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

At 25, you’ve got millions of brain cells to kill.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

It doesn’t matter how many people I’ve killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It’s only in the execution that they fail. I’ve been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it’s a director’s prerogative and you gotta go with it.

There’s a long history of all kinds of cop films… But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things – and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

I think I’m even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I’m less caught up with my career.

I hate government. I’m apolitical. Write that down. I’m not a Republican.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

I think I’m much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It’s a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

TV is a major force in our lives – a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I’ve always had to manage both. I couldn’t get a record deal. It wasn’t by choice – I couldn’t get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.