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" I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. "

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" One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong. "

" Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing. "

" 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.' "

" I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck. "

" 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. "

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

" One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. "

" We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him. "

" Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences. "

" I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. "

" 'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching. "

" I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting. "

" Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me. "

" I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. "

" I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business. "

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

" Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD. "

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

" The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from. "

" I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. "

" 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. "

" I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience. "

" Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold. "

" It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. "

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

" I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection. "

" I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from. "

" I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. "

" In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too. "

" I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think. "