My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.