I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I have a short attention span.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Patience is not something that you keep

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?