On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.