Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.

By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.