Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.