I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

You're gone. No mailing address. But I send you letters anyway.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.