If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

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

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

One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.