The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.