Movies that look safe are less interesting.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When you’re delivering your lines, he’ll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If you’re hoping for him to give you all the answers, then you’re in for a long day.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.