It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

I try to stay under the radar.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.