“It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.”

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.

I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.

It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.

How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.

Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

I think you have to be fair with one another. It’s unfortunate when someone does something that’s not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.

There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.

My parents have raised me with a sense of what’s really important and have given me decent values, and I’m comfortable, but I haven’t lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I’ve kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.

So far, it’s an interesting ride, and I’m curious to see what I can find next.

Obviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography,

Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.

Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.

When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.

The Welfare State, South Africa – and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

They’re not concerned with it. They don’t take their musical legacy seriously.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, ‘Seriously?

I figure if I take my children’s work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.

Quite seriously. Be careful.