I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm]."

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.

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.

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.

That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.

Everything is possible for one who believes

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave.

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.