Nowadays, when you make movies, you don’t need any lights at all. You have to remember, back in the day, the film stocks that they had were very, very insensitive and they would have these humongous lights and lighting was everything, so everyone looked good. Nowadays with digital film where you don’t need any light at all, you could shoot in the [bleep] dark. It makes people not look so good and it makes aging on film much, much harder.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.