I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.