You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

Be a smile on someone's lips.

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.