Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.
I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.
Each morning needs to start with a good sweat. I'm either working out at home or on set, depending on my call time.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.
Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
