The first instinct is love.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.