I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

God save us from people who mean well.

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away:"That's where I wanted to go today!

You are special child.

Be prepared before you fight a battle" -RH

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

We all need somewhere where we feel safe

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.