And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.