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

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 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.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us.

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.