For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a movie work.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

We will have to work hard to rest.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

I'm a leftover junkie.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.