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

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.

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

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.

When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this incredible outlet for something I was already doing fairly compulsively anyway, which was putting on hats and costumes and doing funny voices. It was a very natural compulsion for me.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.