As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame to a plateau - it won't last there. I guess it is just a blue-collar work ethic that I was raised with.

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

Money has never been my primary goal.