“It would be terribly boring to be earnest.”

Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.

What guides me is to do work that’s more avant-garde – things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.

there’s always a process of getting to know one another.

I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.

So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.

Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.

I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.

It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.

How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.

Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

I think you have to be fair with one another. It’s unfortunate when someone does something that’s not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.