When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

We are all God's animated cartoons.

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.