I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.