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

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

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.