You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

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

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.