It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

I just want to start conversations. I want to do films that prompt conversations - whether that is positive, negative, indifferent - just ones that you leave the theater wanting to know more, wanting to watch the film over and over again.