When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

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I was born in the hands of a woman. And I want to die in the hands of one.

Death is the greatest justice, it never discriminates.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.