I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him