The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.

If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.