I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

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

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

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