People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.

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.

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.