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

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

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.

Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.

You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.