The entertainment is in the presentation.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.

While you are laughing madly, There is someone crying inside you

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

The human heart is a dark forest.