We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

I don’t think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that’s something that’s really interesting to watch.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.