Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

Real prosperity is … Having the financial abundance to obey God's will whenever He wants you to, and however he wants you to.

I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

You can tell a lot about yourself by how you go about things.

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.