When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

I'm Hitler and my dad is Mussolini!

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.