Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.