If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.

In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.

Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, "I'm not going to get lucky twice. There's no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass." He looks like the kind of guy who's going to hand you your ass. It's Al Pacino.