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

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.

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

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really easy to write and an utter delight to get to direct because I had people like Edward [Norton] elevating the material and surprising me in their interpretations of all of this stuff that's so close to me.