I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

What about your mind, does it shine?

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.