Well getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

On radio and television magazines and the movies you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I just love movies so suddenly you're political about movies and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

With the CGI suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Even today in our progressive times in most movies that come out the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing making movies.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Yeah I mean the material directors the other cast and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I like action movies even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here or little stuff like 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring a thesis something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

I always leave that for other people to decide because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think 'Gee there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

Even the worst Bond movies there's something to love about them.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.