One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.