'It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.'

'I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane, I guess.'

'As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.'

'My old agent used to promote me as the male Keira Knightley. (Laughs) I thought: 'Well, what does that say about me exactly?' Do I pout a lot or something?'

'A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.'

'The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.'

'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.'

'Some people say that drama is easy, and comedy is hard. Not true. I've been making comedies the last couple of years, and it's nice.'

'My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.'

'When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.'

'I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.'

'There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?'

'My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.'

'In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck prevented it.'

'I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.'

'I guess you can say, I have been remaking my student films forever.'

'The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.'

'The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.'

'Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.'