Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

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.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.