You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.