He said, 'I'm just grateful for the work'. I thought he would be cynical like me, but he had this immense gratitude.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.