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.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

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

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.