America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

You have to believe the magic to see it.