I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

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

On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

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.

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work.

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!