I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.