Casting is 65 percent of directing.

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

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

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.

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.

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

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.