I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I'm too much of a big kid.

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.