Nothing Is Quite So Emotional And Passionate

I Wonder What It Means When Americans Say I'm An American. In Britain The Culture Is Basically The Same From One End Of The Country To The Other. And When I Came Here And I Saw Americans Who Live, I Don't Know, In You Know, Northwestern California As Opposed To Americans Who Live In Louisiana, As Opposed To Americans Who Live In The Nevada Desert. English Even Is Literally A Picture That I Have In My Mind Of An Oak Tree In The Field, A Single Oak In A Green Field. And Also When I Think Of My Russian Roots, It's The Landscape That I Connect With As More Than Maybe The Poetry Or The Drama.

The Timing Of Comedy Is So Difficult. You've Got To Leave Room For A Laugh, You Don't Want To Kill The Laugh, But On Film, You Can't Just Suddenly Stop For A Laugh And Then Carry On. So, I Think It's A Real Art Form, Comedy On Film.

I Don't Believe That If You Do Good, Good Things Will Happen. Everything Is Completely Accidental And Random. Sometimes Bad Things Happen To Very Good People And Sometimes Good Things Happen To Bad People. But At Least If You Try To Do Good Things, Then You're Spending Your Time Doing Something Worthwhile.

Love Thy Neighbor Is Difficult. That's Why Everybody - Wars, You Know. It's The Hardest. And It's The Most Important. And Respect Thy Neighbor. Love And Respect. It Means Respect, Really. Respect Thy Neighbor. Respect The Other, The Different.

I Think The War Movie Genre Is A Very Important Genre In Film. Film Gives You A Visceral Experience Of Something That You Would Never Otherwise Experience. To Give The Audience A Real Feeling Of What Maybe A Certain Kind Of Warfare Would Be Like I Thought Was Great.