The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.

I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.

In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.

I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you don't, you're going to have problems. It's very important. It's also a gut instinct.