In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.