I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the centre of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.