If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

He actually, at the end of the movie, had his fists up in the air and he said to me, it is the best one you have done son.

[I'm reminded of the movie] Gladiator ... Well, we have their answer.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

It is important to dress for success.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.