When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Some people handle sweets better.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

Haters scream, trying to bring me down, but my Beliebers can scream louder than that and I am proud of that.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.