All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.

You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child.