As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

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.

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

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.

Exercise your faith and you exorcise your fears.

Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.