Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.
Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.
If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.
I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.
One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.
I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.
I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.
I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.
Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.
I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.
It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
