One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don`t need much help.

[on how he got through filming a sex scene in The Squid and the Whale (2005) with Anna Paquin, who had 9 years earlier played his daughter in the goose-filled family film Fly Away Home (1996)]: We tried not to think about ... you know, geese.