Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.