Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament.

I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.