There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

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

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

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.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.