I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

I think there's a part of all of us that wonders how we would survive on an island untouched by Man. Even better, an island untouched by Man and inhabited by King Kong.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.