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

I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.