In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

Behavior shapes beliefs.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

I've been asked to pose for Playboy.

It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.

[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.

There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.