I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

It's great to be on a set where there's time and there's focus and there's also a kind of adrenaline thrill on a set where people are saying: "We have to get this shot, we've have to go, we've got to move on!"

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.