I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.