Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

When I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to make films.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

I do know what my songs are about.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.