Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

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

I dare make those comparisons, but we often said 'the making of' would be as interesting if not more interesting than the film.

You know I've been in these tabloids for years now. And at some point you just become a Zen master of it all. Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.