Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.

I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.

We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.

Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.