When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.