I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.