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

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

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

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

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.