I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.