I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

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.

Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.