If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.

Words mean nothingActions are everythingExpect nothingAppreciate everything

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.