I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.