If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.