If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.