I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

So the blues player, he ain't worried and bothered, but he's got something for the worried people.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.