I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.