1. “All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.”
2. “The elderly have so much to offer. They’re our link with history.”
3. “My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I’m ahead or behind the curve, that’s for others to decide.”
4. “I was never interested in being an overly public person.”
5. “It’s a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.”
6. “Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don’t know if we do, though.”
7. “I love these movies where it’s just about the film. You don’t have my face on the poster It’s all about the movie. I like that.”
8. “Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That’s why they give you the part.”
9. “I’m not making any plans. I’m just going to let the universe surprise me.”
10. “I have a bit of rebellious nature.”
11. “Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you’ve known them for a long time.”
12. “I don’t agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what’s important to me is clear.”
13. “Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.”
14. “Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.”
15. “Justice always has context.”
16. “I feel like I’m a filmmaker; I don’t feel I need to yell ‘action’ and ‘cut’.”
17. “The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.”
18. “In the future, there is no future.”
19. “Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.”
20. “I guess maybe I’m idealistic.”
21. “The film is not a success until it makes money. It’s only good when there’s dollar figure attached to the box office.”
22. “These guys who talk about free markets, they are not ideologues; they’re crooks.”
23. “A lot of people are not meant to be together.”
24. “Being on a movie set is like one long financial crises.”
25. “Acting can be pretty challenging. I can’t say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.”
26. “I never wanted to come off as self-important.”
27. “If you’re going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can’t be politically correct when you do that.”
28. “Most movies, once the action starts there’s no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there’s just explosions until the end.”
29. “My point was that it’s hard to make good films, but I’m not under any illusion that you do all the time.”
30. “I just love the process of working with other actors.”
