I would show up for work and look at the pairs of tight, shiny shorts or jeans that made up our 54 wardrobe and wonder if we were making Showgirls…

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven’t found too many great scripts.

Home life’s great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I’ve reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

It’s nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I’ve never considered that that’s how I might be categorized. I guess it’s better than being called ugly.

I have three sisters and I’ve always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

There was a time – before I made movies – when I was more forgiving, but now that I’ve learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see,...

I am miserable when I’m in a movie I’m not proud of and a movie that I don’t want to do.

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people’s...

Tarantino’s stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

There’s always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don’t care how much money you make, where you live… and that’s something this film speaks to.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it’s really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep...

My first film goes into production in October. It’s called White Boy Shuffle and it’s based on a novel about a young black kid and it’s sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

The Way Of The Gun

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn’t come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

Get the f— out.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

People are sheepish when they approach me.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it’s done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

We have a great job where you get to put out something positive like this that might make people think, that might make people feel.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

People often say that even if you’re playing a character who’s not redemptive, you have to like the character, which I disagree.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I’ll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Well actually, some weeks they’ll write that I’m jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they’ll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It’s ridiculous!

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren’t clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

Tarantino’s movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

At 27, it’s great to get to a place where I’m not an actor for hire anymore.

What’s more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

I won’t make a movie for money ever again.

The film is set in 1979, which isn’t that long ago, but it’s a complete period piece. Things have changed so drastically socially since then.

But I’m not particularly comfortable around guns.

Where you raise your children isn’t as important as how you raise your children.

I’m really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

The idea of doing something that you’ve seen a thousand times before doesn’t appeal to me.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

You know, social issue movies don’t make a lot of money.

I’ve been in this business for a long time at my age, I’ve just turned 30, and I feel like my wife’s career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools,...

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they’re artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit...

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that’s more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

I’ve written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I’m 30.