These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.