Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

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