"I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that."

"I like four-hour movies."

"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there."

"I like American history."

"The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself."

"In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute."

"I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue."

"I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good."