I ran into Brenda Blethyn on a plane going to London and I went, 'Oh, I'm going to get to see you again,' ... American History X.

Eighty percent of the street trees in Paris are London plane trees.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.