"I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing."

"I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me."

"The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them."

"The thrill of coming home has never changed."

"The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along."

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."