In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

I love romantic poetry.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.