if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.