Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job.

It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.