Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.