I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.