I've been profoundly germophobic since I was a young child. I don't want to kiss anyone but my girlfriend for my whole life.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

Sickness and disease will be a part of life of this planet until Jesus comes back.

A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.