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

I've already spent a lot of my life doing what makes me go. There's a life out there while I'm still young, able to move, able to just sit at peace in the water - I should be spending much more time doing that, rather than continuing to go through this artistic struggle.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

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