I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.