I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.