News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.