I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

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.

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.

Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.

I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.