The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

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

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.