I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in..

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it..

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic..

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again..

There is nothing you cannot do..

There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

That's J, E, double F, J, A, double R, E , double T... I'm double J, Jeff Jarrett!.

Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan..

Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength..

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know..

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time.….

Life without learning is death..

I'm into women. I just really like women a lot..

In love there is no because..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else..

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it..

Film and art are close together..

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out ….