I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that's what it's about. It's about facing life together.

The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.

I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!

Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.