I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.