When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.