As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.