I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"