I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

I'm probably a little too uninhibited.