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.

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

We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

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.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.