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

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

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

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 like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.