By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Change is such hard work.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.