If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.

We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.