You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

I went to Berlin and Warsaw and Kraków to do research. Right after we got started, I had already booked this trip, so I went. Seeing the history and the posters, and hearing from the guy certain phrases and words and images, it's stunning how much they're playing from the handbook of the little mustache that isn't Chaplin. With Rudy Giuliani as Mussolini.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you.

If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.