There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.