As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

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.