I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.