And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.

You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.