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

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

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

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.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.