You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.