I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye.

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.

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."