I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.

When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

I try to avoid giving advice. The only advice I will give is to pay attention. I don't mean to the screen in your hand. I'm talking about the natural world. I spent a lot of time educating my children about nature by putting them in nature. I said, "I want you to listen; I want you to look." There's so much technology coming into our lives that takes us away from the natural stuff, so I'm pushing the other way.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.