It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. My children look at me for a question and then they quickly look away because they know that I'm not going to know how to make Super Mario or do anything.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.