I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.