I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

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

I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.