The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.