It's interesting to work with Emma [Watson] so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman.

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.