I try to make films that I would want to see.

"Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life and said, 'I'm here for you,' and proved it."

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

The work of art is a cry in the night.

我总是试图在我扮演的每个角色中找到人性，无论他们看起来多么黑暗或复杂。