I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Failure opens the door to the most powerful lessons and discoveries – but it does so only if you have the courage to accept reality and look failure in the eye.

Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that take them to heart, and some who take them to soul.

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

2017 would be a disaster for Obamacare. That's the year it was meant to explode because Obama won't be here.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.