When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

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.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.