Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level.