I never argue with people about movies.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.
I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance
[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.