“Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.”

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.

To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

There are roles that you chase sometimes.