My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

Movies are very subjective.

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.