I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy for them to experiment and try things and give it a go. To me, it's important.

I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.

We are always the same age inside.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

I am tough minded, but not hard hearted.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.