I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

It's important for me to have hope because that's my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we're not going to leave them in a world that's in shambles, that's a chaotic place, that's a dangerous place.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they`ll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.