A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody.

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.