For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.
I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.
Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.