We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.