A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

I know the mind of ancient souls by reading ancient books.

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.