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

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

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

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.