For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and it's flaw.

It is not, how one thinks. Indeed, it is, how one executes that.

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.