You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion!

I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.