Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.
I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.
You're taking big risks doing comedy, because ultimately, you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, you look like an idiot. You have to be prepared to look like an idiot, so you need to have confidence in the man at the helm of it all. You have to take a massive leap of faith and be daring and bold with your choices. It always makes for better work I think.
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.
It looks like we will have a bi-polar reality
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.