In The End, Winning Is

The Movies I Made When I Was 14 Or 15, I Have A Hard Time Looking At Those. Those Were The Awkward Years. I Don't Know If Anybody Can Look At Something They Did When They Were 14 And Not Wince.

There Is Nothing More Beautiful Than Finding Your Course As You Believe You Bob Aimlessly In The Current. And Wouldn't You Know That Your Path Was There All Along, Waiting For You To Knock, Waiting For You To Become. This Path Does Not Belong To Your Parents, Your Teachers, Your Leaders, Or Your Lovers. Your Path Is Your Character Defining Itself More And More Every Day.

What Do I Do To Live? What Do I Do To Be Vital? The Answer Is Always Creativity; The Answer Is Always Art.

Actors Become Actors Because They Loved Entertaining Their Family By Putting On The Lampshade And Dancing Around As A Kid, ... That's Not My Personality. For Me, The Fun Part Of Making Movies Is Seeing It As A Director Sees It. I Like The Architecture Of Movies. I Like Knowing What's Coming And Working To Set That Up.

With 'taxi Driver,' I Had This Eureka Moment. I Realized That Acting Could Be Much More Than What I Had Been Doing. I Had To Build A Character That Wasn't Me.