When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.