I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.

I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.