When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.