Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make something better. The creative energy in this country, and what people are coming up with is very hopeful.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

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

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.