I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.

The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.