'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of the soul, body and pride of man?

When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.

Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.