I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

Was mutual need enough to risk trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one?

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

A man with a golden gun may have a ruthless heart... & may have a golden Heart too

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

I'm delighted and feel incredibly happy with what have been an amazing two months.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.