You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

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.

And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.