I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.