As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.
I just don't like killing creatures.
Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.
Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.
'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.
I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.
There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.
When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.
I love stories about women.
Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.
I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.
