The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about i….

In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out w….

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each ot….

I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great story….

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions..

I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched….

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made..

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable..

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for….

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have..

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom ….

The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney... After The….

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what m….

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America..

Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you….

An actor has so much less space and responsibility. Sometimes you come on, and there are already tape marks for where you are supposed to stand, and ….

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful..

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of tell….

I never really took into account the number of homeless families. As a kid, we used to feed the hungry at my church every other Saturday, and one day….

I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the sec….