As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.