Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.
When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.
A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
The difference between mad people and sane people. . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.
The same song on a different day was a different song.