I Had A Very Supportive Family Environment

What Occurred To Me On [‘the Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’], And Also With The Passing Of Her Mother, Is That There's Going To Come A Time When I'm Not Going To Get To Be With This Person Anymore. I'm Not Going To Get To Be With My Children Anymore. Or Friends, People I Love And Respect. And So, If We Have A Flare-up, It Evaporates Now. I Don't Want To Waste Time Being Angry At Someone I Love.

You Are Not The Car You Drive.

There's A Constant Chatter In Our House, Whether It's Giggling Or Screaming Or Crying Or Banging. I Love It. I Love It. I Love It. I Hate It When They're Gone. I Hate It. Maybe It's Nice To Be In A Hotel Room For A Day - 'oh, Nice, I Can Finally Read A Paper.' But Then, By The Next Day, I Miss That Cacophony, All That Life.

I Had The Luxury Of Working On The Script With Andrew [dominik] For A Good Year Before The Film Started, So I Was Already Intimate With The Story [of The Assassination Of Jesse James] And Felt Quite Prepared Walking Into It.

It Is An Amazing Fact Of Human Nature That One Year We Can Be Chopping Each Other Up And The Next Year We Can Be Sharing A Pint. We Seem To Often Devolve Into Conflict No Matter How Much We Evolve...