Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

I never wanted to come off as self-important.