For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

The United States has its own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

My cat can eat a whole watermelon.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.