"I don`t find Hollywood interesting, so I`m thinking of studying architecture instead."

[on his favourite scene in Attack Of The Clones] "I love the sequence in which Obi-Wan visits Yoda when he`s giving lessons to the Jedi apprentices. At that moment, an image of the universe is projected because Obi-Wan is looking for the planet Kamino. I find this marvelous and very poetic."

"It`s such a struggle to protect your integrity and dignity in this industry ... they really want to attack your morality and your beliefs. They need you to give up a certain part of yourself before they`ll initiate you into `stardom` ... I`ve always been kind of a hermit. I find my joy in the little things they want to take away from me. Prior to all this, I took pleasure from being the observer. Now I`m the observed."

"Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they`re full of batteries!"

"I wish they taught green screen acting classes."

"I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it."

"All I want is all what my mother wanted for me when she raised me - to be happy. For that, I don`t need to be in a relationship. I don`t need to have a certain level of respect. I just want to care very much about what I do and be kind to everyone in the process. It`s important that I can feel that. That`s happiness."

"All my characters have characteristics I don`t know anything about and that`s the joy. Being able to justify their actions, and find sympathy in their wrongs, and understand their accomplishments. After Life as a House I took a while off and tried to remember who I was at the beginning of the film. You obsess, and it`s exhausting, to lose your sense of self."

"Actors are observers. They`re trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you`re the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It`s all wrong."