You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.