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

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

What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.