The new film I'm shooting in Jerusalem - which is partly why I'm here in Israel - is something I co-wrote.

It's always nice to meet friends of friends.

I like to take on a different role every time or else I make myself bored.

I like to do projects that are off-the-wall and on top-of-the-wall.

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

I kind of feel connected to all places at the moment, and I've done very interesting projects in both places (Israel and America).

However, obviously Israel is a much smaller place in terms of population. There are only 6 million people in Israel, where there might be 6 million people in one city in America.

In America, everything is big and more like a jungle.

I really love Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Edward Norton. I also like Ryan Gosling and Rick Bentley. And of the girls I like Naomi Watts and Juliette Binoche, and I would like to work with...

I'm very picky and I'm very critical.

My Potentials are 600, 000 More Than I Use Right Now_nickc

gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

Forget your troubles and just get happy.

One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.