Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in it.You stop looking at the seams and they start inhabiting the same space and start interacting with each .

See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.