If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

On the set, I visit the set for a lot of the rehearsals, and there's always a writer on set. And then I'm involved in post-production, very intensely involved in editing, and the sound mix and color timing. Really, I have about nine jobs.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple drafts, and I work with the writers on all these things. And I'm extremely involved in the writing process.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.