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

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

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

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 - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

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

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 just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.