I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

Nothing beats a great smile.

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.

In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.