Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.