I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty