In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.