I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.