Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

Put God first in everything you do.