Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.