The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

Appreciation is a better stimulant than money. Money boosts the ego while appreciation touches the soul.

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.

Yeah, apparently chasing a bus uses different muscles than sitting and eating.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.