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

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.

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.

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

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

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