As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.

The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right.

Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

I just want to be remembered as a great actor.

Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.

I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

I wanna rule my destiny.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.