I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Man is created for the glory of God.

God to me is the universe unfolding.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.