You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

I am a product of my failures.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.