The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Prayer is our lifeline to God.

... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

That audience embrace has unbelievable power.

Real kindness seeks no return.