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

I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

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

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

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