A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude.

Every day we are reborn.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.