It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.

Pulled pork jokes never get old.

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

One wrong move, and you destroy your career.

To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.

When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.