I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

I like to have a hectic schedule.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Don't feel like you're alone because you're not.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

My life is very much consumed with work.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.

A sunset is the sun's fiery kiss to the night.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.