If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

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

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at." It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.