Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the right time. Yes, a tough person or somebody who knows what they're doing will look better in a fight scene, but it also has a lot to do with the other person.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.

Villains can often be one note and I would say in that case, it’s not fun to play the villain. It’s fun to play the villain if he a) has dimension and b) the villain gets to do all the things in the movie that in life he would get punished for. In the movie, you’re applauded for them if you do them with panache. And so that’s why it’s more fun to play the villain.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.