You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.

What's important is self-appreciation

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one.

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.

It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

Ability without honor has no value.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

I’ve always lived in the moment.