I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained

I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day, ' and I loved it.

Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.