I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."