There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.

If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

It's hard to tell what will stimulate curiosity nowadays because looking at some of the things that do excite people, you kind of go, "Ohh, OK. So this hasn't a chance." But we made it anyway. I think if people see the picture, they'll find a lot of parallels to today, ever since 9/11 and everything, that kind of fear that's going on in disturbance of the country.