I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.