I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine.

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.