People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.

When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.