It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.