America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.

It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.