When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.