Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.
It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.
When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.
I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.
I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.