"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."

"My wife read Narc as well and was really into it."

"So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane."

"I think drug movies free the director to make intense films."

"You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick."

"The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow."

"I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad."

"I think people like watching edgy things."

"I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth."

"I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent."

"I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me."

"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."

"I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company."

"Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later."

"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

"I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while."

"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

"I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac."

"Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads."

"The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending."