I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

But then, it's probably different when you're young.

Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.