I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

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

I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

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

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

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.