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When I started acting, I was asked saying, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna...

I listen much better when I'm acting than I do in real life.

My son became my manager, and he said to me, 'Mom, if you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?' And out of my mouth immediately came, 'Dancing With the Stars.'

We are always giving 100% of what we can do every day. It's kind of sad for me to see that people I work with and myself, we are really judged. I would really encourage people to be more thoughtful...

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

People are fed up with formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data - that's their own human value - not to be exploited.

Consistency, health and a desire to compete. To compete and excel at what I do. That and having good people around you - making my job easy. Great snappers, holders, great protections, great special...

You just keep doing stuff, and one thing evolves into another. Then suddenly it's like, 'Oh, wait, I'm here surfing against Kelly Slater and all these guys I grew up watching.'

Art can articulate new ideas.

Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.

I'm a high-strung personality, and I love checking off my to-do list - it's my way of relaxing. I also genuinely love working out. If I have an hour to kill, I love to go to the gym. It's a...

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't...

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

I always think, what kind of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn't be as mature as...

Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.

As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular...

There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for...

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

'Rectify' is really good.

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.

There's some songs you write like you would write for a four- or five-piece band. But there are times when you start writing and you can immediately hear the full band.

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

I speak my mind, I demand explanations, I want a reason. That's why I am perhaps a difficult guy to work with. But that's how I am.

The University of Maryland was an inspiration for me, and the relationships I made there have lasted a lifetime.

People compare me to Kendrick. I've seen comparisons with Jay-Z, with Nas, with Chance The Rapper. I get a lot of Eminem comparisons.

'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

Is there any fixed qualification for becoming a journalist who can ask questions? There is no such thing, then why a film actor can't become a politician?