Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.