I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.