I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me.

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.