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.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.