It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.