I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

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.

Nothing is worse than loneliness.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

The objective is not just to save the crew or just to get the ship up, but the superobjective is to get back home to the family and protect the family.

There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up??