I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.