Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.
All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.
Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.