A story about my life would be utterly dull.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.

Kindness is the best wisdom. Simplicity is the best achievement.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.