When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much.