I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

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.

Memory revises me.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.

It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.

There is another world, but it is in this one.