Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

Will this coffee get me an Oscar?

If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

We only get one planet.

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.