The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!