"It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest."

"To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money."

"David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too."

"I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor."

"While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship."

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

"The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different."