The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I have a short attention span.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Seek to learn. See to learn.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

I think we are living in a world that is too perfect and things are too retouched. I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'our imperfections are what make us special'

There is only one universal passion fear.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

It's too hot for me to bother with wearing my hair down in the summer. I'd rather pin it up in braids, or throw it in a top knot so I don't have to think about it the rest of the day.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

I read Superman comics when I was a kid.