But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.