Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.