I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. You can't not do both.

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. I don't look at American History X as a failure, or Fight Club as a failure, or 25th Hour as a failure, or Larry Flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that I care about that I've made that were not immediately successful. I'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

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

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.