I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

I just like working with smart people.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

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.

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

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.

I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.