Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

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

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up at 3 in the morning and go "Wait, I have an idea!" You have to continually be drawn over and over again to deepening inside that story, and ruminating over questions: "Why would he say this to her? Why if he was standing there, would she go?" Every one of those answers has to come from some personal place, and in order to do that, you can't sit on the surface. It's such a big change that you can't really explain it to anyone else.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.