Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing funds. In fact, I think the children of those films are getting made. A more interesting question is whether those films are going to get seen and appreciated.