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].

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.