I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.

We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

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.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.