I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.