I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.