I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.