Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.