The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.