To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

Like it or not, I'm the new f***ing Aquaman buddy.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

A lot of people don't know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don't even know that I can speak English.

My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

I don't want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor.

I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.