Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.

It's still a great, big, beautiful, wonderful world no matter what the headlines of the newspapers are and it's there to be explored. It's there for our children to go out and explore and explore different cultures and learn from it. I never lose hope.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.