With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.