As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.

It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'