"A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger."

"You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies."

"My wife needs her freedom just like me."

"Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies."

"Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you."

"I grew up in a dysfunctional family."

"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."

"My family is awesome."