My life is very much consumed with work.

I like to have a hectic schedule.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Don't feel like you're alone because you're not.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

Sleep has never been a priority in my life.

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow