If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.