The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something's going in an unexpected direction and see it as a bonus and be able to go with it, as opposed to locking down what they thought was going to happen.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.