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I'm More Interested In Talking About What I Do. And I Don't Think People Are Interested In My Personal Life. I've Never Had A Hollywood Life. I've Always Been A Worker. But It's True: If You Know Something About A Person Outside Of The Movie That Is Really Repulsive To You, It's Hard To Shake. So I Prefer To Do My Speaking Through The Work. I Don't Want People To Know Anything About Me, Because That's Not Important. I'm More Interested In The Me That Takes Shape Through These Characters. The Other Stuff Is Personal And Too Easy To Trivialize Out Of Context.

I've Never Had Any Close Male Friends. The Most Important Relationships In My Life Have Always Been With Women.

Mounting Those Red Stairs [in Cannes] Is Something I've Done With A Very Different Intention Many Times. So It's Interesting Any Time You Witness Those Shifts Of Perspective. The Beach Scenes Were Also Fun. It Felt Very Strange And Very Theatrical To Kind Of Commandeer It And Have La Mer Booming Over The Speakers.

A Lot Of Critics Are Lazy. They Don't Want To Look Closely And Analyze Something For What It Is. They Take A Quick First Impression And Then Rush To Compare It To Something They've Seen Before.

I Like The Idea Of Sitting In A Theater With A Bunch Of People. With Technology Now, People Are Getting More And More Isolated. I Like The Community Coming Around The Story. You Don't Have That With A Dvd. People Go Home, They're Tired From Work, They Can Turn It Off. It Doesn't Make You Commit The Same Way, If You Can Control The Movie. More Difficult Movies, It's Too Easy To Turn Them Off. All The Time, I See Movies I Know If I Had Seen It On Dvd, I Wouldn't Have Hung With It. If You See It On The Screen, You Hang With It And It Pays Off Better Than A Movie You Can Easily Sit Through On Dvd.