"I was an escapist, the guy who wanted to get out of school and out of the suburbs... Acting saved me."

"I try to avoid the sweet-ass roles. I don't consider myself anything of the kind, and there's no point in pretending I am."
Interview, 1998

"I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women."

"In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make."

"Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear."

"Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking."

"This is good and evil, together at last."