No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.