I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they're full of batteries!

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.

I've always been kind of a hermit.

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

Try your ideas. You might surprise yourself.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

Life is fundamentally up for grabs

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

Leaders use story to author the future.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.