I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

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.

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

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.

If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

If you're a dancer, study singing.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

I've been performing my whole life.