There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.