Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.

I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.