You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

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

In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. I am cognizant of what I have done, and any of us could maybe draw the line better. But I've tried to live pretty fearlessly.