The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?