“At 25, you’ve got millions of brain cells to kill.”

Violence – look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who’s kidding who?

I never think there’s any competition between films. I root for everybody’s films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I think that the “what if” game is what you guys get to do. I don’t have to do that. I hate the “what if” game. I’m such a believer in everything happening the way it’s supposed to happen.

I would say, ‘I’m alone, but I’m not lonely.’ But I was just kidding myself.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It’s just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they’ve seen, then I question your judgment.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it’s time to stop singing.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They’re a captive audience.

Cinema has no boundaries, we all belong to the same artistic community.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews.

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

What I say is what I say, I don’t always say the right thing, I don’t always say the politically correct thing. I don’t have any regrets about that.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, ‘What’s a Marvin Gaye?’ and, I mean… Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.

A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.