The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

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.

The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.