I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

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

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

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.