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.

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

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

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.

On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.