I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.