I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn't signed on for.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.