We did work together surprisingly well, more than I thought we would, because I didn't know before we met if we would actually work together really well, and we had a great time.

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Be brave, be bold, be free.