Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn’t work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies.

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.