If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.