Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.

It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.

I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really ancient, about how to imagine living beyond any physical bounds, which we're on the verge of now.