If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.