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.

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

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