My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.

You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.