That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.

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 lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

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

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.