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

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

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.