I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come fro….

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or w….

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not….

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor..

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you..

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor..

Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done..

I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again..

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination..

I know some of these guys who are in that stalkerazzi world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. This is another….

We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception….

I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of….

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn'….

You know I've been in these tabloids for years now. And at some point you just become a Zen master of it all. Most of these stories, you get probably….

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 ….

Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but havin….

I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with some of my favo….

[Robert] Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are not the main themes, but c….

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need..

When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm f….

Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and i….