I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.

There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.