I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I'm too much of a big kid.

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.

On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.