“There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat…” — Ron Howard

My wife and I invest very, very conservatively.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they'll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That's the game we play when we're hearing a story unfold. That's part of what sucks us into a movie.

I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.