The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.

I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a safari guide.

No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.