Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.