I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.