To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

[An actor has to let things] bubble up when you're doing a lot of the acting and telling a lot of the story with that narration, ... You have to allow less to do more.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.