I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

I think you just keep going. I've been that way, my whole life.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.