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" I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks. "

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" Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. "

" Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. "

" One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' "

" I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk. "

" Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. "

" I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.' "

" Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation. "

" If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. "

" Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor. "

" I love England - it's no secret. "

" I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking. "

" I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about. "

" And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy. "

" I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do. "

" Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? "

" Nobody wants to watch perfection. "

" I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. "

" Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. "

" The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers. "

" Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. "

" All of my characters have a glint of madness. "

" I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. "

" I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. "

" To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. "

" You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed. "

" I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own. "

" Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating. "

" I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness. "

" My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose. "

" How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else. "