Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

In the end, winning is sleeping better.

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.