I don't fly by the seat of my pants. I set strategies, and then I pursue those in unrelenting fashion.

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

I do think we're in a period of time culturally where there is just this extraordinary connection that we have to our pets, and in many ways, they are displacing kids. They're so much simpler than dealing with a kid because of this unconditional love that does not get complicated by adolescence or any other manipulation.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

My family fulfills me.