“It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.”

Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

Film is a time capsule.

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.