The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

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

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

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.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

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.