If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Point shoes are torture devices.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.