My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable..

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of tell….

I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my ….

I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the sec….

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought..

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least hav….

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the….

I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great story….

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't ….

I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw i….

I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason..

Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink ….

Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you….

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what m….

I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, wha….

I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very good, the narrative still survives be….

You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreogr….

People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what story I am allowed….

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have..

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America..

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?.