I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

The older we get the less afraid we are.