As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.