You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.