I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.

Real love sometimes means saying goodbye.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

All truth is profound.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.