For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years ago, I remember going to see one of my movies - I can't even remember which one now - and everyone was jumping up and down, getting excited, saying what a great film it was going to be. We all went in and watched it, and it was the slowest movie I've ever seen. The next day, the reviews were terrible and half the studio was fired.