I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

Id like an omelet named after me.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!

All paradises are there to be expelled from.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Being discriminatory is necessary if you want to make a lot of money.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

A house is not a home.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

... and that's why I kicked your leg out of your leg!