I like to give my actors a lot of room.

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

I like to give my actors a lot of room.