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

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.

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

This revolution is for display purposes only.

We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.