You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.

We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my life, and everybody in the room would go, "Poor Kevin." Because you could not turn your back on the idea that you saw it.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.