There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

I'm way too disorganized.