I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.

In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing.

I was a fan of the television show as a kid but I wouldn't say that I've followed all the movies or anything like that. But I was a television junkie as a kid.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.