"I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that."

"I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good."

"The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person."

"I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do."

"I am interested in the invisible scars that people carry."

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."

"It is a steadfast truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing."

"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."