“Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.”

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.

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.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

The human body is in constant change the minute we’re born. It’s in a constant state of decay. We’re all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.