There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.