We don't even know who's in the Academy.

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.