All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I have a short attention span.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.