Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

Sometimes it can be really rough, but I believe if we love one another more, we can help to share the burdens and make the world a better place.

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?

Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.