I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood.

The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.