Quote collection
58 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before."
"It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley."
"I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship."
"I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research."
"I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God."
"Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad."
"Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically."
"I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym."
"I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy."
"The only morality in a cruel world is chance."
"But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that."
"Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived."
"It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it."
"Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film."
"A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody."
"I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that."
"Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness."
"I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror."
"We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on."
"I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem."