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" 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. "

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

" I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot. "

" When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part. "

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

" I think people like watching edgy things. "

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

" You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole. "

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

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

" What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing. "

" As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles. "

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