The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a hell of a lot to the party.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.