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