There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how Speed is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.