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

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.