Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.

Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.