Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director.

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

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

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