"I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud."

"I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father."

"When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo."

"You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man."

"Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me."

"I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma."

"When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up."

"I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!"

"Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace."

"I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there."

"I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up."

"I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house."

"I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life."

"'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser."

"One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her."

"I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film."

"If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife."

"I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there."

"My training is documented on film."

"I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself."

"To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving."

"Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate."

"You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat."

"In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way."