Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.