When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Never let the light in your eyes fade...You are beautiful just the way youare..

How cinematic of an entrance that was.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.