Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

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.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.