The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

I've always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths. We come in. We don't know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they're gone and it's kind of melancholy. You miss that guy but then suddenly you're working with him again maybe somewhere.

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.