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There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

If I read a script and I like it, there's nothing that will stop me from trying to be in that movie.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

If you got more than one letter from somebody who said they hated you, it meant they kept watching.

I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselves and it's not hearsay.