I think life's an irrational obsession.

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.

When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

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.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.