I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.