There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Of all the people in the world who could've won the seat next to mine at that playoff game... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

Life is an endless experience of God's. God doesn't even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.