All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.