I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

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.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.