I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.