Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit it, you paint in those little spaces and tell them what direction to go in.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

Almost every single person that I've worked with - whether it's been George Clooney or Robert DeNiro or Harvey Keitel, or whoever - the quality that I find that's most consistent in most of the people is the humility.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.