When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."