If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.