I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

Denominations divide while the cross unites.

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.

I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.