I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?