People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

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.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

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.