Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

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.

When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. It's not a humanitarian thing, because I don't see it as a sacrifice. It's a gift. We're all lucky to have each other.

They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with.

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