Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy.

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.