I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.