I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

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

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.