For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.