I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.