I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.

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.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one