Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.