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“People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.”
“I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.”
“I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.”
“You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.”
“I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.”
“The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.”
“Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.”
“I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.”
“I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.”
“I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.”
“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.”
“I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.”
“If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.”
“I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.”
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”
“I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.”
“I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.”
“I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.”
“I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.”
“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.”