That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

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.

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.