Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.