I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

I think the reason that people fall in love with Sandra Bullock is that she doesn't seem to know it in the same way. She doesn't seem to know it in a way that other gorgeous people maybe would. I think that's what makes her so accessible.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.