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.

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

I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

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

I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.