For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Knowledge is what makes the human being rich and not otherwise. Whoever thinks that money determines rich or poor is so wrong or in another way to put it he/she is so shallow

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.