There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.