If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people go through, and how their acting works for them.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.

You can't come up with ideas if you don't see first.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond.

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.

I wouldn't put myself in that bracket, but it's one of those things. I think what helps is that we [with Tom Hardey] don't socialize, we don't really know each other, we purely work together.