You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

I never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.