That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

I don't talk about my friends behind their back.

I write constantly about everything.

I dont think I could do a superhero movie. Im just not really that type of guy.

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

Your intensity increases your net worth

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

Great products sell themselves.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.