Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.

The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.