Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.