Epicenter Quotes

The West has always been the epicenter of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It`s to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. We all keep moving toward the sun, wishing to get the last ray of hope before it sets.

It was one of the spookiest jobs I`ve ever had, but Alcatraz was not the problem. Most of the film was done in L.A. I`m in this four-by-six cell--wet, naked, covered in shit, live bugs in my hair, live rats chewing on my leg, Chained to the walls for a lot of it. Being beaten by Gary Oldman; of course, I can`t think of anyone I would rather be beaten by. One day, it was four-thirty on a Monday morning, we`d been working all night, and the ground started shaking. We were right near the epicenter. It was a horrible experience. Here I was, naked, shackled in this cell, and just every day playing some new level of agony. It was the closest I`d ever come to losing it. I`d cry on the way to work. (On filming Murder in the First during the 1994 Northridge earthquake)

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment. It wasn`t violence, it wasn`t drink - it was money. I was a sensitive, runty, rednecky kid, and I absorbed my parents, stress about that. Now I find myself living in the epicenter of money, trying to define myself against it. I`m having a nice little swing here, but even if they come at me with a big paycheck - and they haven`t, believe me - it won`t fill the void that`ll be created in me if I have to go out and lie to guys like you about loving a movie I`m in that I actually can`t stand. That`s gotta chip away at you.

I am very proud to have Fort Bragg, the epicenter of the universe, home of Joint Special Operations Command, in my home district.